Jobs at PayFast

What you'll be doing

• Develop automated framework and test scripts
• Execute automated test scripts
• Build relevant reporting on findings including passed and failed tests
• Report defects using the project’s defect management tools
• Work with the development team to resolve any issues that arise out of the testing process
• Participate in the testing process (when the application is transferred from the build to the QA team) to ensure that solutions meet business requirements
• Validate fixes
• Willing to do basic training to upskill QA team members

What you'll need

• Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or other relevant fields
• 3 years + experience in automation testing

Exposure but not limited to:

• Playwright
• Appium
• Selenium
• Puppeteer
• Cucumber
• Gherkin
• JMeter
• SoapUI
• Postman
• BrowserStack
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, strong analytical skills, highly developed attention to detail
• Good decision-making ability
• Ability to work individually and in a team as and when required
• Working well even under pressure
• Meeting deadlines

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What you'll be doing

• Facilitate the implementation and updating of the Group’s Enterprise Risk Management and Operational Risk Management Frameworks and Programmes.
• Point of contact with Business and Support functions in facilitating and promoting the understanding of operational risk and governance matters; to implement a sound operational risk management framework.
• Support the risk owners and champions in conducting Risk Assessments (RA) of business and support units and for projects, changes or initiatives.
• Support the risk owners and champions to ensure that Risk and Control Self-Assessment (RCSA) reviews are appropriately and timely completed by the business and support units.
• Roll out of the RCSA process across the organisation and expand the risk identification and monitoring program.
• Perform process mapping exercise for key operational processes to support RCSA and control monitoring.
• Review standard operating procedures and process notes to identify procedural risks and recommend compensating controls.
• Providing and facilitating operational risk training and awareness to staff across the Group.
• Develop training materials on operational risk issues to enhance understanding on operational risk issues among the staff and conduct periodic training sessions and workshops.
• Second line of defence oversight of the business and functional units for the execution of BCM, testing exercise and assurance.
• Facilitate the implementation and updating of the Group Business Continuity Management (BCM) Policy, Group BCM Framework and Programme.
• Providing and facilitating BCM training and awareness to colleagues across the organisation
• Develop and maintain a crisis management plan to respond to disruptive events

What you'll need

• Relevant Bachelor’s degree in either Commerce / Risk Management / Information Technology
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in banking, financial services or payment services. Exposure to banking operations, payments, card operations, merchant acquiring operations with reasonable experience in process management, MIS and data analysis.
• Ability to interact with business unit managers and executives regarding mitigation plans, strategies, and progress towards recovery goals, contingency plans, and planning activities.
• Certifications in Risk Management / Technology Risk / CRISC will be added advantage.
• Good understanding of Operational Risk Tools like RCSA / KRI / Loss Data Management / Internal Controls.
• Good understanding of global risk management standards e.g., ISO 31000; 22301.
• Should have strong communication and negotiation skills, as well as solid presentation skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills used within a team environment.
• Pro-active and self-starter who can work with limited supervision.

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What you'll be doing

• Provide business as usual support to your workload and environment
• Be the technical owner of your workloads’ infrastructure
• Automating tasks that can and should be automated
• Explore ways to constantly improve quality of existing services, processes, and systems to maintain system effectiveness and reliability
• Work to implement and make sure environments are structured and built with redundancy and “key component” failures in mind
• Make sure environments and workloads are run as cost effective as possible
• Help to ensure the delivery of infrastructure solutions in line with PCI-DSS and other compliance requirements, including documentation
• Complete and perform daily, monthly and yearly audit requirements

What you'll need

• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in networking
• 2 to 3 years routing experience (BGP / OSPF being of importance)
• Advanced experience with dynamic routing (OSPF, BGP, Route Filters, etc.)
• Experience with IPSec, GRE, and other secure tunneling methods, advantageous
• Candidate should be fluent in most Layer 1, 2, and 3 networking technologies and be able to diagnose and repair faults on all three network layer
• Previous experience with Amazon Web Services, with a core focus on connectivity, advantageous (VPN Gateways, Transit Gateways, Direct Connect, Peering Connections, Routing, Security Groups, Hybrid Gateways, etc.)
• Valid CCNA (routing & switching) or MTCNA (certification will be verified)
• CCNP/CCIE advantageous but not required

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What you'll be doing

• Scaling and automation of a Distributed On-prem and Cloud environment
• Maintain our configuration and build management systems
• Develop Tooling of repetitive tasks
• Develop and maintain new and existing testing and release pipelines
• Develop and maintain documentation of systems configurations and procedures
• Implementation of Kubernetes and orchestration platforms
• Database maintenance and implementations
• Work closely with technical team members
• Must be able to troubleshoot complex issues quickly and effectively
• Research and evaluation of new technologies for our environment
• Security and incident response
• Patch management

What you’ll need

• Certification (Bachelors / RHCE / ISO 27001) is a plus but not required
• High level of proficiency in Linux based OS
• Cloud Infrastructure (AWS/GCP) is an advantage
• Containers (Docker + Kubernetes)
• Pipelines (Jenkins/Gitlab Ci)
• Proficiency in a scripting language and application language: Bash, Python, PHP, Go, Ruby, Java
• Proven IaC experience in one of: Terraform, CloudFormation
• Proven Configuration As Code in one of: SaltStack, Chef, Ansible, Puppet
• Web Servers (Apache, Nginx, FPM, Node)
• Load Balancers (Haproxy, Proxysql, Nginx)
• Knowledge of Database technologies: Mysql/Maria/Percona/Galera/proxysql
• NoSql DBs,pub/sub and Key/Value stores: Redis/mongo
• Replication technologies (Galera, multisource, CRDT)
• Experience in Networking: OSI, vlan, ospf, vrrp
• Knowledge and experience with Hypervisors and storage networks
• Distributed Storage (Glusterfs/Ceph)
• Queues (AMQP)